He was an honorary member of the Academy of Pictorial Arts in Vienna. His last important public commission was the "Apotheosis of the Habsburg Dynasty", a huge ceiling fresco in the Habsburg Room of the newly rebuilt Royal Palace, that he painted in 1903, one year before his death. Lotz was already seriously ill when he worked on the fresco. The "Apotheosis" followed the traditions of Baroque court painting and the work was praised by contemporary critics. The fresco survived the war unscathed, but it was destroyed in the 1950s. He died in 1904 in Budapest. As a "Prince of Hungarian Artists" he was given a state funeral and interred inside a memorial. His pictures, drawings and sketches were donated to the State of Hungary and are now in the Szépművészeti Múzeum. Several Hungarian cities have streets named after him, there are Hungarian stamps bearing his likeness, and there is a bust in the National Museum in Budapest. Painting works Ceiling of the Budapest Opera (1884) Mural in the large ceremonial room of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest Mural in the stairways of the Hungarian Parliament Building in Budapest (1897) Mural in Hungarian National Museum in Budapest (1874) Mural in the Redoutensaal (Pesti Vigadó) of Budapest's main concert hall Mural in the casino of Theresienstadt (Terezín), the Czech Republic Ceiling and mural in the Stephansbasilika of Budapest as well as the seminary "Apotheosis of the Habsburg Dynasty", ceiling fresco in Buda Castle (1903, lost) Mural in the main market hall of Budapest Mural in the east railway station of Budapest Mural in the reading room of the library of Budapest University Ceiling and mural in the Matthiaskirche (Church of St. Matthew) in Budapest Ceiling and mural in the Justice Palace of Budapest (1894) Mural in the Weapons Museum of the Arsenal in Budapest Frescos of the Heinrichshof in Vienna (destroyed in WWII) Various works at the palace of Earl Károlyi Various works at the palace of Baron Weckheim Various works at the palace of Baron Lipthay Mural for the Tihany at Lake Balaton Gallery Quotes References Austrian Biographical Lexicon: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon (ÖBL) 1815-1950, Bd. 5 (Lfg. 24), p. 332 (de) External links Detailed Biography of Károly Lotz Biography and Pictures of Károly Lotz Hungarian painters 19th-century German painters 19th-century male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists Hungarian people of German descent Academic